I agree with @mclinnguy. I owned a Zenwave PSR11 power cord. It sounded terrible for the first 100 hours, and it took more than 500 hours to get 95% of its peak level.
Keep them on for 200 hours as recommended.
Speaker Jumpers
Is anyone here experienced with a speaker jumper cables, in particularly Furutech JumperFlux-Spades? I've been told that they are an exceptional cable but need 200 to 300 hrs to break in? 🤔 200 hrs is probably when your ears don't remember how your system sounded previously lol. I've had them for 50 hrs now and with all due respect to Furutech, they sound terrible. The cheap $0.25 factory metal strips that came with my Klipsch LaScala AL5 speakers sound 100x better than these $560 CDN jumpers. I'm glad I didn't buy the $23,000 CDN jumpers by Ansuz!
So should I stick to the 200 hrs or accept my loss and move on?
I agree with @mclinnguy. I owned a Zenwave PSR11 power cord. It sounded terrible for the first 100 hours, and it took more than 500 hours to get 95% of its peak level. Keep them on for 200 hours as recommended. |
I am 100% with @bigtwin on this one. My go-to is two use double runs of whatever speaker cable I am using, one full run to the LF posts and the other identical and separate full run to the MF/HF posts. However, when I am using single run (non-biwire) cables with jumpers, I usually connect the full-range cables to the MF/HF posts and jump to the LF posts. I have several sets of jumpers I have constructed and my favorites use the same Furutech spades as your JumperFlux cables with wire mined from Harmonic Technology cables - 9awg, individually insulated, solid-core OCC copper wires in foamed PE. Those are probably overkill but I do some things just in case it makes a difference, and jumpers are one of those things. Regarding your specific JumperFlux cables, based on the approximately 9.5awg wire specification, I suspect they are simply Furutech's Evolution Speaker II wires, which are fine stranded OFC copper wires with PE insulation. With those jumpers, I would be very surprised if anyone were able to reliably discern the difference in the sound of low frequencies compared to other suitable jumpers. BTW, 200 hours of break-in is just rediculous. |
Hello Fire Water! After 50 hours, and very short wires, I think you can trust you ears and ask for that (I hope you have one) money back guarantee. Try some bare 14 guage zip cord or solid 14 gauge (or more) house wiring wire. You just want to be sure it's copper or silver wire you're using. Enjoy the Music. |